Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@kara_dreamer You have to figure out where to put a paper book when you're done reading it, but Amazon won't repossess it if they think you did something you shouldn't (and probably didn't) before you finish reading it.

@squirrel It doesn't help that the server end is so frustrating, but we do genuinely appreciate that as well.

@squirrel The number and variety of small instances is one of the network's greatest strengths. You are providing a great service, and we love you for it. We could choose anywhere managed by anyone, and after weighing all our choices, we chose here, a place cared for by you.

I got excited and found what looked like a candidate manual typewriter for easy conversion to any layout imaginable, the Sears Easy Touch from the mid-'60s. The slugs just slide right on and off. Then I saw its price and a typing sample showing off its build quality. Shame.
http://type-writer.org/?p=3417
https://computerfairi.es/media/ATuJ_mdkjBMYYDZ1Ogw

I spent 15 years trying to touch-type Sholes (qwerty), and I almost can, but I never got above 20 wpm. It's been 15 years since I switched to touch-typing Dvorak, and my speed is well over 40 wpm on an absolutely terrible, error-prone day now.

I want a typewriter with the Dvorak layout, but they're as rare as hens' teeth.

There's a place that converts typewriters, but only Selectrics. They're excellent typewriters, but my goal is a manual over an electric. Besides, nearly $1,000 for purchase, conversion, and shipping is quite an investment.

A Blickensderfer with the non-qwerty Blick keyboard would also be nice if it's in good enough condition to be a weekly workhorse.

https://computerfairi.es/media/EyG0umdj4K5M7ARVOFY

LB: I would love to see Gordon Ramsey's meltdown on seeing pizza on pineapple.

@squirrel This looks absolutely fantastic! What a very pleasant surprise to come back to! :3

@CobaltVelvet@octodon.social I use "nuke and pave" instead. That is so much more fun to say.

A short list of things dudebro tech startups "invented" that already existed in better or more accessible forms: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/09/14/a-guide-to-the-things-silicon-valley-invented-that-already-existed/

#Linux #systemd strikes again. Today's episode, "systemd-cryptsetup: Booting with encrypted root partition fails instantly":

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6381

No boot and no emergency shell. The only way to do any fixing is to boot a live CD, live DVD, or live USB edition of your distro.

Thanks, Poettering, for reminding me again why I left Linux for Unix.

It's well known that Windows doesn't play well with others, but Windows doesn't even play well with Windows: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/06/windows_insiders_with_sd_cards_turn_into_onedrive_outsiders/

Very suddenly, and without warning, Microsoft OneDrive supports only one of the few filesystems Windows supports: If it isn't NTFS, you get no MS cloud.

Tusky posted that twice with only a single tap on the Toot button.

Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to the FCC Website: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/dead-people-are-posting-anti-net-neutrality-comments-to-the-fcc-website

@squirrel What about rescuing Azrael instead?

Oh, bloody hell. Not all the palantirs are accounted for, you idiots. https://computerfairi.es/media/QWr17CPVdDpqLgXokb4

IPv4 served its purpose, & IPv6 is much better, but with an IPv8 I should scream down the Information Superhighway.

Why isn't this bigger news? Starting with 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu Linux will no longer have the Unity desktop as a default.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/